Brain Mechanism in Music

Abstract

Research into the relationship between musical abilities and the brain has benefited from a series of recent technical innovations. These have made possible two basic approaches: One involves the use of dichotic listening techniques and infers hemispheric specialization on the basis of comparing performance between the left and right ears. A second approach is to construct musical tasks which are similar to those in classical experimental psychology and where brain-behavioral correlates have been demonstrated in animal models. Thus by delineating similarities and differences in processing between musical and non-musical tasks, models or theories of brain function can be attempted.

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